. Annual catalogue of seeds, plants, & Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. VI SPECIALTIES AND We offer this striking novelty as received from the raiser. We have not yet had an opportunity of personally judging of its merits, but it has been pronounced by good authority as a valuable introduction to the Horticulture of this country, and the high opinion recorded bv the
. Annual catalogue of seeds, plants, & Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. VI SPECIALTIES AND We offer this striking novelty as received from the raiser. We have not yet had an opportunity of personally judging of its merits, but it has been pronounced by good authority as a valuable introduction to the Horticulture of this country, and the high opinion recorded bv the raiser is confirmed in the following descriptive statement:— ' Many old and neglected plants are really valuable, but, after all, it cannot be denied that one which is absolutely new to cultivation, and at the same time is one of the verj- best in actual merit, is decidedly most desirable. "Just such a plant is Centrosema Granditlora. I have had the pleasure of watching the growth and development of it during the last few seasons. It is a perfectly hardy, perennial vine of rare and exquisite beauty, which blooms early in June from seed sown in April, and bears in the greatest profusion inverted, pea-shaped flowers from 1 ^o to 2}/^ inches in diameter, ranging in colour from a rosy violet to a reddish purple, Avith a broad feathered white marking through the centre. The large buds and the back of the flowers are pure white, making it appear as if one plant bore many difterent coloured flowers at one time. Occasionally plants bear pure white flo^\ers, while others are margined with a broad white feather- ing. The flowers are produced in the greatest abundance, sometimes G to 8 in a single cluster. "The stem and foliage are very graceful, and of a delightful odour. Blooming stems placed in water remain fresh for many days. "It is well adapted for every garden purpose, especially as a climber, running 0 to 8 feet in a season. Even in the poorest soil it will bloom
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